Soundgarden and Chris Cornell

[Ubik]

I knew Flip was a big fan, didn't know about Mark though, that's cool.

[agny]

Chris and Matt talking about the song By Crooked Steps (which I assume is playing in background). Sooo looking forward to having this in a month
[youtube]http://youtu.be/_JMtQcftd3U[/youtube]

[agny]

King Animal album reviews!

Clare O'Brien (she has a great Cornell/SG blog and the @ccfanpage Twitter)
her own review: http://chriscornellnews.blogspot.co.uk/ ... guide.html

She's collecting more reviews here:
http://www.chriscornell.org.uk/reviews.htm

[agny]

Bones of Birds video commentary for http://www.spin.com/articles/soundgarde ... irds-video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/caKJw223pu4[/youtube]

[agny]

I hope while Chris and Matt are doing promo Kim and Ben are hard at work on pulling together the long-rumored B-sides collection.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/b7kObyln91w[/youtube]

[BSC]

I'm looking forward to Soundgarden's new album, but in some ways I'm also quite anxious for it. I know Soundgarden don't like to repeat themselves, and I fully expect their new album to be different from their last album, or any other album, but at the same time, I hope it's not too different that it damages their legacy.

I love Badmotorfinger and Superunknown, they are brilliant albums. I'm sure the new album will be good, I like Been Away Too Long, By Crooked Steps sounds good and so does Bones of Birds.

[agny]

New box set and other direct preorders on http://www.soundgardenworld.com/

And another full song (Non-State Actor) and commentary posted http://www.youtube.com/user/soundgarden
[youtube]http://youtu.be/KIDInlJJFb0[/youtube]
[youtube]http://youtu.be/aD9uH4X5TYY[/youtube]

[BSC]

Non-state actor is brilliant, and that box-set is incredibly tempting, although I bought Telephantasm when it was full price (£100), and I regretted it quite alot, as the vinyl was crap, and quickly dropped in price.

Thanks for posting, I've been waiting for a pre-order link for ages

[Ubik]

Loving what I'm hearing so far. New Soundgarden!

[agny]

Non-state actor is brilliant, and that box-set is incredibly tempting, although I bought Telephantasm when it was full price (£100), and I regretted it quite alot, as the vinyl was crap, and quickly dropped in price.

Thanks for posting, I've been waiting for a pre-order link for ages

Much as I'd love the live DVD, I don't have a vinyl record player, so not worth the much larger cost. That's travel money for me to see them live again. Went for the Deluxe CD and a T-shirt little bit of a splurge.

[agny]

Tour dates!! http://www.soundgardenworld.com/tour

I think preordering from the site gets you on the password list for presales for the North American ones.

Nov 7 Germany
Nov 9 London
Nov 13 NYC
Nov 16 Toronto
Nov 27 Hollywood

Edit to add: from a Toronto Sun music critic
https://twitter.com/JaneCStevenson/stat ... 0461692930
@ChrisCornell of @Soundgarden just told me there will be Jan-Feb N.A. tour aft Nov. 16/Phoenix date 4 new SG disc, King Animal, out Nov. 13.

So North American tour Jan-Feb (Phoenix = name of theater in Toronto not the city)

[agny]

"Halfway There" teaser and commentary from Kim and Ben
[youtube]http://youtu.be/lkPPgDTyucE[/youtube]

[agny]

Taree commentary and snippet
They seem to be doing each of these with a different media outlet, then it shows up on their YT channel later.
http://music.msn.com/video/music/?g=ac8 ... ba35053c00

[BSC]

[youtube]http://youtu.be/_-LsCL5nP8A[/youtube]

Sounds good, just over a week to go!

[Dayviewer]

Sounds awesome, new Deftones on the same day as well, gonna be a good day for music

[Timotheus]

Yea, Chris sounds really good. Can't wait to hear the entire thing

[facepollution]

http://www.dr.dk/p3/programmer/smag-paa ... #clip14779

first five songs from the album, AMAZING

A Thousand Days Before is absolutely jaw-dropping

[BSC]

http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog= ... bum_stream The entire album can be streamed here, enjoy! I haven't heard it all yet, I'll give my thoughts once I have.

[Nick]

I'm not terribly impressed, to be honest. I thought it was kind of boring, but I pushed through and it never seemed to improve that much.

[BSC]

I kind of agree with you, but I'm not going to be dismissive too quickly, just because I thought the same about Superunknown the first time I listened to it, and now I think it's brilliant.

I've listened to King Animal three times now, I think the highlights are Non-State Actor, Rowing, A Thousand Days, By Crooked Steps, Bones of Birds and Eyelid's Mouth